Colonialism
It’s so unexpected that The Banda Journal, the book from the project I produced collaboratively with the writer Fatris MF, and designed by Jordan Marzuki, won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook of the Year Awards 2021. Earlier, we already so happy to know that we’re in the shortlist. But we never really thought that we would win. So it was a really nice surprise for the end of this turbulent year.
Read the news here.
Some images from The Banda Journal is published in November 2019 issue of One World. Really happy that images from Banda Eli also included in the final publications in the magazine. Banda Eli is a small village at the eastern side of Kei Besar island. This is where the descendants of the original Bandanese who escaped Dutch atrocities in 1621 still live until these days.
Meanwhile, a dedicated book for this project, designed by Jordan Marzuki, is currently at the finishing stage. If all is going well, it will be published by the first quater of 2020. Can’t wait!
